magobis



(No Model.) I V T. J. MAGORIS.

WAGON BRAKE.

No. 244,908. Patented July 26,1881.

lllllllll 4: .MU ll x. mm mm. WM 0. a

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS J. MAGORIS, OF ITHAGA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JAMES H. MAGORIS, OF SAME PLACE.

WAGON- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,908, dated July 26, 1881.

' Application filed October 1,1880. (No model.)

- To all whom it may concern:

Be it' known that I, THOMAS J. MAGORIS, a citizen of the United States, residing in Ithaca, Tompkins county, New York, have invented an Improved Wagon-Brake, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the common frictionpad pressed to the wheels of the vehicle by levers or similar devices; and my invention improves the-pad by two meansf1rst, a device whereby the leather-bearin g against the wheel maybe easily attached and detached; second, a device for ready adjustment to the tire of the wheel. The nature of these devices will be apparent as I describe them.

Figure 1 is a partially-sectional elevation of my pad'or block. Fig. 2 is a view at right angles to the sectional elevation, being the outside view. Detached figures show the several parts of my pad, and letters indicate the same.v

In the figures, a is the pad or block, and b is the rod or bar that goes through the block and sustains it, and by which the pad is applied to the wheel, and c is a plate or head of the bolt f, extending upward and downward from the bolt proper, and fitted to face the block or pad a, and having the books or pins 6 0 fast to it, as shown.

The pins 0 extend backward from the wheel into recesses in the block. A leather or similar material, (1, makes direct contact with the wheel. This leather is made fast at its lower end by being bent over the end of the plate 0 and hooked on the lower pin, 0, whence, ex tending over the face of the plate 0, it is again bent over the upper end of the plate and is hooked. on the upper pin, 6. A bolt f, of

which the plate or head 0 is a part, extends through the block a, and in so doing passes through the rod or bar I), and through a metallic tube, g, which is in the outer part of the block, to where a burr, f, holds the bolt and plate 0 and leather d to the block, for when the burr is tightened the pins 0 0 enter the recesses of the block and clamp the leather fast at its ends, between the plate and block, it being noticed how the tube 9 bears on the bar. Next, it will be seen that the burr f does not bear directly on the block a, but that the tube g just spoken of is interposed between the burr and the rod or bar 11, so that the tightening of the burr is against the rod or bar, and that part of the block between the bar and the plate 0. This is for my second purpose,which is to make the block adjustable on the bar, and thus to fit accurately the tire of the wheel of the vehicle, and to do this a slot, 11, is made in the bar, that when the burr is loosened the block can be adjusted to the wheel--an object rendered desirable by the vicisitudes to which the wheel is exposed, as well as for convenience of the device.

The advantages and uses of my invention are sufficiently apparent.

I claim-- 1. The plate-headed bolt f c, the head-plate 0 being the size of and facing the block a, and having the pins 6 c, on which the ends of the leather d,which faces the head-plate c, is fixed, and which bolt thus constructed clamps the leather by its ends to the block a, the said parts being combined and acting together, substantially as set forth.

2. A metallic bar, I), having a slot in it and inserted through the block a, through which block and slot the bolt f passes, the said bolt having the sleeve or tube 9 about it, and a burr, f, whereby the bar I) and the plate-head c of the bolt are clamped together with a portion of the block a between them, the above named parts being combined together, as set forth.

3. A brake-block having the combination of the plate-headed bolt of, leather d on the pins 0 e, slotted bar I) through the block a, tubular sleeve 9, reaching into the block a and bearing on the bar I), the said parts being clamped together by the bolt fand its burr f, in the manner shown and described.

THOMAS JOHN MAGORIS.

Witnesses:

Ons. G. DAY, A. Gn'DAY. 

